Fake News: CNN
Accidentally Falsely Admits It Aired Pornography for 30 Minutes on Thanksgiving
by Matthew Boyle 25 Nov 2016Washington, DC
CNN, which has come
under enormous scrutiny for its lack of editorial standards over the course of
the 2016 presidential election, fell for a
series of so-called “fake news” reports that hammered its own network on
Friday.
Late Thursday evening on Thanksgiving, a Twitter user in
the Boston area reported that CNN was airing hardcore pornography for 30
minutes through local provider RCN. The original report on those Tweets surfaced
in The Independent, a leading left-of-center newspaper based
in the United Kingdom. From there, the story spread like wildfire to many other
media outlets including Variety magazine, the U.K. Daily Mail,
the New York Post, Esquire magazine and Mashable, among others.
Throughout all of this, the Breitbart News Network team
was aggressively researching television video capturing services like TV Eyes
and Critical Mention, among others, and scouring social media looking for
evidence. We reached out to CNN, asking at least two different spokespersons
for comment on the matter and even asking the producer for resident media
critic Brian Stelter’s program Reliable Sources for comment.
Breitbart News sent CNN spokeswoman Emily Kuhn a link to
the Independent’s original post, asking: “Any comment on why CNN was
airing this in Boston? Will anyone be held accountable?”
Kuhn didn’t reply. So Breitbart News also reached out to
Stelter’s producer Shanta Covington, asking: “Wanted to see if Brian has any
comment on why CNN was airing a half an hour of nonstop hardcore pornography?
Does he still think you guys are a news organization?”
Covington, and Stelter, didn’t reply.
But, since this network has higher editorial standards
than anyone else and seeks actual evidence before publishing such a story,
Breitbart News still sought more evidence before rushing out there with
something. No evidence emerged, which made our entire editorial team
skeptical—we wondered how, if this aired for 30 minutes in a huge media market
like Boston, there was no video emerging online of it?
Eventually, CNN actually confirmed that it did air
“inappropriate content” and was seeking an “explanation” from RCN.
“The RCN cable operator in Boston aired inappropriate
content for 30 minutes on CNN last night. CNN has asked for an explanation,”
CNN said in its statement, seemingly confirming the impropriety.
Even pornography websites like Brazzers mocked CNN for
it, saying that airing such pornography would amount to the “least offensive”
thing the network has done in the last year.
But Breitbart News still wasn’t satisfied it actually
happened and reached out to Kuhn once more with a link to a story
from The Verge containing CNN’s admission of impropriety, a piece
that called the entire fiasco “fake news.” Fake news is the new phenomenon
emerging in the wake of Donald Trump’s landslide victory whereby establishment
outlets are targeting new media outlets that are booming in growth while
establishment media crumbles. So Breitbart News sought additional confirmation
from Kuhn before publishing anything, trying to ensure that the accurate story
was told when we eventually reported the news.
“They’re saying it’s ‘fake news,’” Breitbart News emailed
Kuhn. “But CNN is confirming that ‘inappropriate content’ aired in the
statement quoted here. So did CNN air pornography or not? We want to get the
details correct, given Breitbart’s high editorial standards. Please let me
know.”
Kuhn still hasn’t answered. But now, according to the originally
incorrect report from Variety, which was based on the
inaccurate piece from the Independent, both CNN and RCN are denying the
reports CNN admitted to — that they aired inappropriate content for 30
minutes on Thanksgiving in Boston.
It turns out, even when the news is about CNN and the
rest of the media, Breitbart News is one of the only places you can trust to
take the time and make the effort to get it right before rushing click bait
online. The rest of the media is compromised, even CNN — and CNN is even
compromised when it comes to information about CNN.
This all comes in the wake of several legacy media outlet
reporters admitting
on Breitbart News Daily’s Thanksgiving radio special on
SiriusXM 125 Patriot Channel that their industry faces significant credibility
problems. Stelter, CNN’s media reporter, was invited on the show as well, but
Kuhn told Breitbart News he was unable to make the time to appear outside CNN
to defend CNN.
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